4.15.2009

Lesson of the day #1

Lesson of the day:
Do not so much as eat a gummi bear in front of a homeless person. They will ask for your morning granola bar, and you can't not give it to them.

3 comments:

Kara Kara said...

you gave it to them? i'm really good at not giving the homeless stuff. maybe if i were in america it would be different. sometimes they are really frank and connect with you in the eyes with that smart vibe they got

Laura S. Taylor said...

yeah i had to give it to her. i'm sure it's much different in China

Kara Kara said...

haha there's no way there can be a different keyboard. there's this system called pinyin...
which is the alphabetization of the chinese language including a set of tones.

you can say this word: ma in four different tones. ma with up tone, ma with down tone, ma with loopy-tone, ma with nuetral tone.
anyways when you type in the word "ma"
a panel instantane4ously flashes on your computer screen and you pick from the incredible list of characters (here's a few) that would look kind of like this: 1吗2妈3马4嘛5麻6骂7抹
anyways they all have one of the four tones but there's no way the computer can show you. you can either press the number corresponding with the character you want on the keboard, or you can actually clikc it with your cursor. it sounds more complicated than it actually is.